SNP hold on to Aberdeen Donside with reduced majority – Farage’s Scottish venture ends with lost deposit
Comfortable victory for SNP In Donside by-election although vote down 15% on 2011 BBC report http://t.co/qrGVOkhua3 pic.twitter.com/wSSaA8FZPL
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) June 21, 2013
Party shares in Aberdeen Donside by-election SNP 42 Lab 33.3 LD 8.3 Con 7.7 UKIP 4.8 Greens 1.7 National Front 1 Christians 0.9 SDA 0.14
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) June 21, 2013
Is UKIP is something you are only south of the border?
Although their majority was down sharply on 2011 the SNP will be delighted to have held on to Aberdeen Donside in the Scottish Parliament by-election. If they’d failed to win they would have lost their overall majority at Holywood.
Scottish Labour barely moved from their 2011 position when they had a disastrous outcome in the Holyrood elections. This reinforces the view that they might have trouble at GE2015 repeating their 2010 performance when they won 41 of Scotland’s 59 Westminster seats.
The LDs, who’ll be defending 11 Scottish seats st GE2015, will be relieved that they made third place, squeezing the Tories into fourth.
Given all the fanfare and publicity the UKIP lost deposit will go down as a disappointment for Farage and his party. They put a lot in but came away with just 4.8% of the vote.